Man Charged With Sending Threats to Obama, Senator

4/18/2013 4:26PM

The man charged with mailing threatening letters to President Obama and a U.S. senator that could contain poison is a professional Elvis impersonator with long-standing complaints about being persecuted by a local hospital. Devlin Barrett reports.

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... the the ... a professional Elvis impersonator from Mississippi has been chopped withstanding poison least miles ... to present Obama and a U S Senate ... the will Street gentle stuff when ... joins us now from Washington with the tiles that the Dublin tell a small ... I yes charges were filed today in federal court Mississippi ... and it basically is a man and ... although Kevin Curtis ... of sending threatening letters to both present Obama and Mrs B Senator Roger wicker ... and essentially what they say is within those letters there is a substance that initial tests are positive for rice ... which is a poisoned derives from castor beans ... and are doing more testing on it to determine ... how much Christ was in the substance wasn't enough to be truly poisonous legal ... or was it just a small percentage of what was in the outer ... rind ... them and tell us more about the man has been tried he has ... a history of man fullness understand ... well it's not clear ... if he has certain document hospitalization history ... what's what's certain is that his friends and family and and elven the lawyer who was close to the family say ... that the family has been trying for years to get him proper mental health care ... and they have been on able to do that ... and what they say is that he's he's suffered from a lot of ... and and their words aam ... essentially delusional ideas and behavior ... and that and that they believe ... they're not really clear what's happened here long course it hasn't really shown share the evidence with them but ... they believe that whatever's going on here this is this is about a man needs help not a man whose that danger to anyone ... that I was also the also has some of the right ideas that government is part of the the the problem and and and a very big in conspiratorial white tells about that ... well I think he's got a lot of it seem sure of all around the job the loss of the local hospital years ago ... and he has this notion is that the friends and family say he is never let go of ... that there's some giant conspiracy involving bodily body parts that he discovered that hospital ... and its global events that involve billions of dollars it's it sounds pretty far out there frankly ... and buddy guy and what what what were told by people who who know him and no need for decades is that he's never really let that go ... and that he sees connections between that ... and political figures ... compare ... write stuff thank you Brian much time and that of the will Street gentle we appreciate the time ... thank you